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PRESS RELEASE: Friday, February 3, 2018

Memo Release Shows Need for Second Special Counsel and Resignations

Akron, OH – Tom Zawistowski, President of the We the People Convention and Executive Director of the Portage County TEA Party, is calling for a Second Special Counsel after the release of the House Intelligence Committee FISA Memo. The Memo showed that top officials in the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation used the infamous “Trump Dossier”, which they demonstrably knew was paid for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC and was intended to smear President Trump with false charges, to illegally lie to a FISA Court Judge in order to obtain a warrant to spy on the Trump staff and Campaign during and after the Presidential election. This false information was leaked repeatedly to Democratic media outlets, by it’s primary author Christopher Steele and by FBI and DOJ officials like Jim Comey and Peter Strzok, in an effort to derail Trump’s election efforts and improperly influence American voters.

Zawistowski said, “This Memo clearly shows their was intent, motivation, opportunity and actions of top officials at the DOJ and the FBI to improperly use the public resources of their agencies, to stop President Trump from winning the 2016 election. Then to setup the pretext for the phony “Russian Collusion” that resulted in the illegitimate Mueller Special Counsel Investigation’s attempts to delegitimize the election of and the Presidency of Donald Trump. This memo proves that the Obama Administration was illegally spying on American citizens in the Trump Campaign and Administration. There are many, many questions still to be answered, such as did President Obama know about the spying and did Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch approve it. That type of investigations can only be done by a 2nd Special Counsel who should be appointed by Jeff Sessions immediately. Our recommendation to Attorney General Sessions for this critically important position would be someone like former Federal Prosecutor Joe DiGenova or former Solicitor General Paul Clement because they would have to have NO connections whatsoever to the many DOJ and FBI staff involved in this scandal.”

Zawistowski concluded by saying, “We hope the FBI Director Christopher Wray and Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein both resign, and if not that they are fired, along with a host of other top officials who at best clearly did not do their jobs, and at worst were complicit in illegal activity such as destroying evidence in the Clinton email scandal, leaking classified information, stopping or undermining investigations into the Clinton Foundation, Uranium One, and the DNC email “hack” among others. What everyone in Washington needs to understand is that We the People are not stupid. We have known for years that ALL areas of the Federal Government have been weaponized by President Obama and his appointees and that they have been breaking the law with impunity and unlawfully attacking American citizens for blatantly political/ideological reasons for years. This is NOT just about the FBI and DOJ. This is just the start of cleaning up the corruption in the DOJ and FBI so that we can then have honest public servants to investigate the NSA,SEC, EPA, FEC, BLM, HUD, Defense and all the rest. We the People demand that the laws of our land be applied to everyone EQUALLY and we will not stop pushing President Trump to continue to “Drain the Swamp” until these corrupt officials are purged from OUR Government.”

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The Crisis in the FBI and DOJ Laid out for you:

Patriot TAKE ACTION TODAY!

Tell President Trump we DEMAND Action! Jeff Sessions needs to FIRE everyone involved in the coup attempt at the DOJ and FBI. Then announce that a criminal investigation begins IMMEDIATELY!
If the Republican’s had illegally interfered in the 2008 Election and Illegally Spied on the Obama Campaign, the Left would have burned the FBI and DOJ to the ground!

My Fellow Patriots – NOW is the Time to Act and Raise Holy HELL until we get Justice!

Call the White House 202-456-1111
Call the DOJ: 202-737-5214
Call the FBI: 202-324-3447
Call your Congressman and Demand that they Release the Memo to the Public NOW!#ReleasetheMemo

This is the biggest scandal in American History with the opposition political party using the force of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to try and change the outcome of a Presidential Election. Failing that they then attempted to force a duly elected President out of office with false accusations, provided by Russian Agents and paid for by the losing candidate, to invalidate the votes of 62 Million Americans!

Congress Demands ‘Explosive’ FISA Info Be Made Public

THE CLASSIFIED MATERIAL IMPLICATES THE OBAMA DOJ AND COMEY FBI AND DESTROYS THE ENTIRE BASIS OF THE MUELLER INVESTIGATION.

Congressmen joined forced Thursday night to demand that classified information they viewed is made public due to that fact that it PROVES the FISA court was fed bogus information, relying ONLY on the totally discredited Fusion GPS dodgy “Pissgate” dossier.

This demolish’s the entire basis of the Mueller investigation, which now stands exposed for being based on illegitimate wiretaps.

Washington, D.C. — Congressman Matt Gaetz (FL-01) today released the following statement after reviewing information from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, including a memo held in the Congressional Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) that contained previously-undisclosed information involving the Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI) and Department of Justice (DOJ). (more information on link)

Congressmen Gaetz has been joined in his call by Congressmen Ron DeSantis:

While the report is classified as Top Secret, I believe the select committee should, pursuant to House rules, vote to make the report publicly available as soon as possible. This is a matter of national significance and the American people deserve the truth.

.@mattgaetz: “The allegations contained in this important intelligence document go to the very foundations of our democracy and they require an immediate release to the public in my opinion.” pic.twitter.com/kqjxp21GcA

These are MAJOR and SEISMIC developments that are finally going explode all of this information about Hillary Clinton, Obama, and their “insurance policy”- manipulating the entire situation with obtaining the original FISA warrants. Without that deception there could be no Muller investigation. Now this is to be blown WIDE OPEN to the public!

It is inevitable that Trump will agree to these requests so hold onto something.

Gregg Jarrett: Did the FBI and the Justice Department, plot to clear Hillary Clinton, bring down Trump?

There is strong circumstantial evidence that an insidious plot unprecedented in American history was hatched within the FBI and the Obama Justice Department to help elect Hillary Clinton and defeat Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.

And when this apparent effort to improperly influence the election did not succeed, the suspected conspirators appear to have employed a fraudulent investigation of President Trump in an attempt to undo the election results and remove him as president.

Such a Machiavellian scheme would move well beyond what is known as the “deep state,” a popular reference to government employees who organize in secret to impose their own political views on government policy in defiance of democratically elected leadership.

However, this apparent plot to keep Trump from becoming president and to weaken and potentially pave the way for his impeachment with a prolonged politically motivated investigation – if proven – would constitute something far more nefarious and dangerous.

Such a plot would show that partisans within the FBI and the Justice Department, driven by personal animus and a sense of political righteousness, surreptitiously conspired to subvert electoral democracy itself in our country.

As of now, we have no proof beyond a reasonable doubt of such a plot. But we have very strong circumstantial evidence.

And as the philosopher and writer Henry David Thoreau wrote in his journal in 1850: “Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.”

Newly revealed text messages about the apparent anti-Trump plot are the equivalent of a trout in the milk. It smells fishy.

The Plans

The mainstream media and Democrats dismiss talk of an anti-Trump conspiracy by the FBI and Justice Department as right-wing nonsense – paranoid fantasies of Trump supporters with no basis in facts. But there are plenty of facts that lay out a damning case based on circumstantial evidence.

Recently disclosed text messages between FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page suggest there may have been two parts of the apparent anti-Trump plot.

“Part A” was to devise a way to exonerate Clinton, despite compelling evidence that she committed crimes under the Espionage Act in her mishandling of classified documents on her private email server.

Absolving Clinton cleared the way for her to continue her candidacy at a time when all polls and just about every pundit predicted she would be elected president in November 2016. If Clinton had been charged with crimes she would likely have been forced to drop her candidacy, and if she remained in the race her candidacy would have been doomed.

But “Part A” of the apparent anti-Trump plot was not enough. A back-up plan would be prudent. It seems the Obama Justice Department and FBI conjured up a “Part B” just in case the first stratagem failed. This would be even more malevolent – manufacturing an alleged crime supposedly committed by Trump where no crime exists in the law.

And so, armed with a fictitious justification, a criminal investigation was launched into so-called Trump-Russia “collusion.” It was always a mythical legal claim, since there is no statute prohibiting foreign nationals from volunteering their services in American political campaigns.

More importantly, there was never a scintilla of evidence that Trump collaborated with Russia to influence the election.

No matter. The intent may have been to sully the new president while searching for a crime to force him from office.

But thanks to the discovery of text messages, circumstantial evidence has been exposed.

The Texts

The text messages exchanged between Strzok and Page, who were romantically involved, confirm a stunning hostility toward Trump, calling him an “idiot” and “loathsome.”

At the same time, the texts were filled with adoring compliments of Clinton, lauding her nomination and stating: “She just has to win now.”

One text between Strzok and Page dated Aug. 6, 2016 stands out and looks like the proverbial smoking gun.

Page: “And maybe you’re meant to stay where you are because you’re meant to protect the country from that menace.” (This is clearly a reference to a Trump presidency).

Strzok: “Thanks. And of course I’ll try and approach it that way. I can protect our country at many levels .…”

It is reasonable to conclude that Strzok had already taken steps to “protect” the country from what he considered would be a dangerous and harmful Trump presidency.

Just one month earlier, then-FBI Director James Comey had announced he would recommend that no criminal charges be filed by the Justice Department against Clinton. Given all the incriminating evidence against Clinton, Comey’s view that she should not be prosecuted made no sense by any objective standard.

This is where Strzok played a pivotal role. As the lead investigator in the Clinton email case, he is the person who changed the critical wording in Comey’s description of Clinton’s handling of classified material, substituting “extremely careless” for “gross negligence.”

As I explained in an earlier column, this alteration of two words had enormous consequences, because it allowed Clinton to evade prosecution. This removed the only legal impediment to her election as president.

Documents made available by the Senate Homeland Security Committee also show that Comey intended to declare that the sheer volume of classified material on Clinton’s server supported the “inference” that she was grossly negligent, which would constitute criminal conduct. Yet this also was edited out, likely by Strzok, to avoid finding evidence of crimes.

This seems to be what Page and Strzok meant when they discussed his role as protector of the republic. It appears that Strzok was instrumental in clearing Clinton by rewriting Comey’s otherwise incriminating findings.

Were Page and Strzok also referring to the investigation of Trump that was begun in July 2016, right after Clinton was absolved? After all, Strzok was the agent who reportedly signed the documents launching the bureau’s Trump-Russia probe. And he was a lead investigator in the case before jumping to Robert Mueller’s special counsel team.

If there is any doubt that Strzok and Page sought to undermine the democratic process, consider this cryptic text about their “insurance policy” against the “risk” of a Trump presidency.

Strzok: “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office – that there’s no way he gets elected – but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.…”

The reference to “Andy” is likely Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who was also supervising the investigation of Clinton’s emails at the same time his wife was receiving roughly $675,000 in campaign money in her race for elective office in Virginia from groups aligned with Clinton.

What was the “insurance policy” discussed in Andy’s office? Was it the FBI’s investigation of Trump and his associates? Or was it the anti-Trump “dossier” that may have been used by the FBI and the Justice Department as the basis for a warrant to wiretap and spy on Trump associates? Perhaps it was both.

The Dossier

The “dossier” was a compendium of largely specious allegations about Trump, compiled by the opposition research firm Fusion GPS. The dossier was funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Comey called it “salacious and unverified.”

Various congressional committees suspect the dossier was illegally used to place a Trump campaign associate, Carter Page, under foreign surveillance. When asked about that on Wednesday during a hearing on Capitol Hill, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein refused to answer, which sounds like an implicit “yes.”

Using a dubious, if not phony, document in support of an affidavit to obtain a warrant from a federal judge constitutes a fraud upon the court, which is a crime.

The dossier scandal recently ensnared Bruce Ohr, a top Justice Department official, who was demoted last week for concealing his meetings with the men behind the document.

Ohr’s wife worked for Fusion GPS. This created a disqualifying conflict of interest for Mr. Ohr. He was legally obligated under Justice Department regulations to recuse himself from the Mueller investigation of Russia’s role in the election, but he did not.

Congress needs to find out whether the dossier was exploited as a pretext for initiating the Russia probe against President Trump. It would also be unconscionable, if not illegal, for the FBI and Justice Department to use opposition research funded by Clinton’s campaign to spy on her opponent or his campaign.

Both agencies have been resisting congressional subpoenas and other demands for answers, which smacks of a cover-up. Since the Justice Department cannot be trusted to investigate itself, a second special counsel should be appointed.

This new counsel should also reopen the Clinton email case and investigate the conduct of Strzok, Page, Comey and others who may have obstructed justice by exonerating Clinton in the face of substantial evidence that she had committed crimes.

If Strzok or anyone else allowed their political views to shape the investigations of either Clinton or Trump and dictate the outcomes, that is a felony for which they should be prosecuted.

The Mueller investigation is now so tainted with the appearance of corruption that it has lost credibility and the public’s trust.

It is very much like a trout in the spoiled milk.

PRESS RELEASE: For Immediate Release: Thursday, November 16, 2017

CONGRESS MUST RELEASE THE NAMES AND DETAILS OF ALL SEXUAL ASSAULT CASES IMMEDIATELY

Akron, OH – Tom Zawistowski, President of the We the People Convention and Executive Director of the Portage County TEA Party, is calling for Congress to immediately disclose the names and details of all sexual assault cases involving members of Congress for which $15 million in taxpayer dollars have been spent on settlements since 1997. The demand for disclosure comes after Representative Jackie Speier (D-CA) disclosed in House testimony that the Office of Compliance had paid out settlements in over 200 cases against lawmakers since 1997 for all claims the office covered for racial and religious discrimination and sexual harassment.

Zawistowski said, “It is incomprehensible to American taxpayers that a sitting member of Congress, or their senior staff, could sexually harass or even assault someone, let alone people employed by them, and not be held accountable by leadership by being thrown out of Congress and/or paying with their own money for any settlement they worked out with the victim. This is so wrong on so many fronts. Where is the “Ethics” Committee?? Where are Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer? Are they not enabling these sexual predators by guaranteeing that they will not be identified and then telling them that even if found guilty they will not have to pay for a settlement??? We find it rich that these same people are calling for Roy Moore to step down in Alabama, when none of the charges against him have been proven, while at the same time they are paying out settlements for other members of Congress who clearly were proven guilty as charged for sexual harassment or assault. Talk about the height of hypocrisy.”

Zawistowski continued, “We are writing to all members of the Ohio Congressional Delegation today, Republicans and Democrats, demanding that they push leadership to immediately release the names and details of all of the sexual assault cases in which settlements were paid by the OCC, and to disclose if they or any of their staff have been involved in these cases. We are demanding that Congress immediately end this program, including the requirement that accusers attend counseling after making charges and the use of taxpayer dollars to pay settlements. We demand that Congress implement the same rules that corporations are required to implement in their Human Resources Departments and that any member of Congress found to have committed a crime by HR, such as rape, be referred to the police. When is Congress going to get the message that We the People will not allow our elected officials to place themselves above the law and misuse our tax dollars for their own personal benefit? We demand equal justice under the law and we will not settle for anything less in this case and all the other criminal activity involving Congress and those who work in Government and in the DC Swamp. Disclose the names and details NOW!”